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CADENAS PARTsolutions 2013 Parts Management Brochure – Now Available

By Adam Beck | April 3, 2013

Now available for FREE download, the 2013 Parts Management Brochure outlines the features of the CADENAS PARTsolutions enterprise products. Why is Strategic Parts Management important for your success? 70% of controllable product costs can be traced back to planning during the development…

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Engineering the Chainsaw Launching Bazooka Slingshot

By Adam Beck | April 3, 2013

Raise your hand if you’ve ever had this problem. You’re out pruning the ole’ maple tree in the back yard and there’s that one branch just out of reach. You try and try, but you just can’t get it with the pruners,…

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Part of the Month: Colder Space-Age Medical Couplings

By Adam Beck | April 3, 2013

Made of futuristic, space-age polymers (specifically, glass-filled polypropylene) these Colder medial couplings are way cooler than either “Memory Foam” or “Tang.” C’mon NASA, where’s my hover-board already? From the looks of these fittings and couplings, they most likely have been…

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Why Do Manufacturers Need Parts Management? Part 2 – Purchasing Parts

By Adam Beck | April 2, 2013

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3In Part 1, we discussed the advantages for how parts management can transform the search and selection of internal components. The software and process ensures that the entire engineering team pulling from the same “bucket” of…

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CAD Product Configurator: Zierick Manufacturing Launch 3D Parts Catalog Powered by CADENAS PARTsolutions

By Adam Beck | March 20, 2013

Milford, OH – Feb 11, 2013 – CADENAS PARTsolutions, a global provider of 3D parts catalogs and CAD product configurators, and Zierick Manufacturing Corporation, a leading manufacturer of solutions for complex interconnection requirements, launch Zierick’s online 3D CAD sales configurator. Zierick…

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Pole Flipping Chopper Bots

By Adam Beck | March 19, 2013

You may remember the “Nano Quad Rotors” from one of our Crazy Cool posts, way back in 2012. The nano-bots were doing all kinds of simple tasks in a very precise way, and it was pretty rad. Well, “Moore’s Law”…

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Why Do Manufacturers Need Parts Management? Part 1 – Locating Parts

By Adam Beck | March 18, 2013

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3Every engineer uses standard parts in some way, shape or form, within their designs. “Standard” may be something as simple as a bracket or fastener which is commonly reused in designs because it’s a known good part.…

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3D CAD App: PHD Inc. Launches Mobile Sales Configurator App Powered by CADENAS PARTsolutions

By Adam Beck | March 7, 2013

Milford, OH – Feb 11, 2013 – CADENAS PARTsolutions, a global provider of 3D part catalogs and sales configurators for industrial manufacturers, and PHD Inc., a leading global automation components manufacturer, are expanding their CAD Sales Configurator with a 3D…

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Engineering the Robo-Wolf

By Adam Beck | March 5, 2013

Everyone knows the story of the “Three Little Pigs,” those snarky little swine that pick on the “Big Bad Wolf,” until he gets pretty TO’d. They realize they’re in deep, so they each build a house of straw, sticks or bricks…

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Don’t be an Online Ostrich – Online CAD Catalog and Sales Configurator

By Adam Beck | March 4, 2013

We recently had a discussion with an industrial manufacturer; his company has a decent website which offers CAD downloads in the form of STEP/IGES – strictly generic “non-native” CAD downloads. We were demonstrating how we could improve his online presence…

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